The first part of yesterday’s work was dedicated to how the association has changed over time and how it can evolve further. Four speakers: Michele Giovanardi, president of Confartigianato Imprese Piemonte Orientale, Maurizio Comoli, vice president of Banco Bpm, Domenico de Angelis, co-general manager of Banco Bpm and Marco Granelli, national president of Confartigianato Imprese.
What has Confartigianato done in these years? “We have raised the quality of services to businesses, traditional services but above all new services, from export, accompanying small businesses in trade missions and training, with our Agency accredited in the Region, and activating initiatives of active labor policies” said Michele Giovanardi.
The role of small businesses within macro economic scenarios was summarized by the vice president of Banco Bpm, Maurizio Comoli: «Small businesses and large industry are not in contradiction, and if small businesses, more exposed in this period of economic difficulty, decrease, the country will become a desert».
A burst of pride for President Marco Granelli: «If despite everything we are the second manufacturing power in Europeafter Germany, in a fabric made up of small businesses, then perhaps it means that it is not the businesses that are not working but that the context in which they are inserted is problematic and hence the need for a renewed and solid agreement between businesses and institutions”.
Next up, the awards ceremony
As per tradition, three Artifex Awards, an object of artistic craftsmanship created by Matteo Libanoro of Gattinara, were assigned to three personalities who, in the three provinces of Eastern Piedmont, distinguished themselves by interpreting the values of craftsmanship in their own field of activity.
For the Novarese, the headmaster of the Omar of Novara, Francesco Ticozzi, for the Vercellese Sister Egidia, head of the Sacro Cuore Institute of Vercelli and, for the Vco, Raimondo Sgrò, teacher at the Cobianchi Institute and president of the Elettra Robotics Lab Association of Verbania.
Maestro d’Opera e d’Esperienza Award to Ercole Niccioli, from Trontano, for a life dedicated to craftsmanship. Finally, the awards for the longest-serving entrepreneurs and the collaborators and managers with the longest seniority in the role: 51 entrepreneurs who have been associated for 35 years, 12 who have been associated for 50 years; one entrepreneur who has been associated for 36 years and one manager in the role for 20 years. Finally, 4 collaborators with 20 years of service.
This is the list of Novarese members since 1973
Maria Antonietta Brustia hairdresser – Novara
Claudio Cazzadore hairdresser – Novara
Gaudenzio Fortina rice mill – Bellinzago Novarese
Frank Gallina radio tv repairs – Novara
Piero Luigi Livia motori – Momo
Enrico Tosi electro diesel laboratory – Omegna
Joseph Godio body shop – Borgomanero
John Matella taps – Gozzano
Gino Valloggia – excavations and earthworks, hauler – Borgomanero
Joseph Valloggia – excavations and earthworks, hauler – Borgomanero
Peter Floriani – mechanic – Gattico
